Jon Sienkiewicz Blog

Unless you live on flotsam near Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean, you've already heard that Adobe Photoshop is now 35 years old. Photographers, graphic artists and other visual creatives—but especially photographers—should by all means celebrate.

Adobe just announced major enhancements to AI-powered editing in Lightroom & ACR, a text-to-video app based on Firefly, Project Neo (3D design app), significant speed enhancements in Illustrator and more.

Ready to reach deep into the recesses of your hippocampus for the answers to some fun photography questions? Great! Let's get started…

Gigapixel AI allows users to enhance, upscale, sharpen, denoise, recover and reimagine images—even low-res, pixelated dreck—and render stunning, sharp, printable images. Here is our 10-point audit.

Fellow photographers, we were blessed with a bumper crop of cool new stuff in 2024. I'm including lenses and software in this roundup, but not cameras. Here are 13 of the absolutely best products I had a chance to play with last year. I snuck in a mildly controversial number 14 at the end because I couldn't resist.

Whether the holidays bring out your “Humbug!” or your “Ho, ho, ho!” there’s one thing you must admit: it’s the most colorful season of the year. Except maybe for spring. And autumn. Anyway, all seasonal colors are just begging to be zoomed, blurred and pleasantly smeared. Smartphone users: you can play too.

This isn't an ad. It's a how-to that gives you the ins and outs of using lens mount adapters to inexpensively engage some of the best glass ever made—easily and cheaply.

We're amazed that not everyone knows this. Nikon Z owners can adapt legacy Nikon F-mount optics—made by Nikon, and state-of-the-art when they were originally introduced—that work in Manual Focus Mode and Aperture Priority or Manual Exposure Mode—and they're a genuine steal compared to the price of modern optics. It's very easy and very affordable. A huge plus: while many don't realize it, the image quality is exceptional, even when compared to current lenses. Wait—there's more…